Children in crisis over State failure

Abandoned election promises are still coming back to haunt the Government and those on the margins of society continue to be the victims.

The latest unconscionable fact of the cutbacks, euphemistically called adjustments, is that upwards of 90,000 children are living in poverty in this country because the Government has failed to adequately increase child benefit payments or provide medical cards, as was promised.

Having pledged to increase the benefit by €32 a month and give 200,000 medical cards to people on low incomes who needed them, they failed to deliver once back in power.